Letter from Samuel Langhorne Clemens to Edwina Booth Grossman

by: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910; Mark Twain

Publication date: 1877-04-08

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Topics: Grossman, Edwina Booth, 1861-, Correspondence, Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, Abernethy Manuscripts Collection

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Language: english-handwritten

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Todd Sturtevant
Virginia Faust

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25- Some day, Miss Booth, when you (having become acquainted with my many virtues + merits,) shall come to like me as well as I already like you, [strikethrough][-][/strikethrough] we two shall be a couple of right good friends. Then you will say,'I do not value this book because it has worth - since that is questionable- but I value it because Mr. C's im- pulse was kindly + honest + I am satisfied that he would have sent me a much better one if he had been able to write itâ (And that will be just as true a thing as you ever said- mark my words!) Truly Yours Samuel L. Clemens

Hartford, Apl. 8/77